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Advice on when to purchase PC parts (self.buildapc)
submitted 1 year ago by ripened_avacado to c/buildapc
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I am looking forward to building my first PC and wanted to get advice on if there are any specific month/events (Eg: Black Friday) with discounts on PC parts that I should wait for.

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[–] Delphia 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Start shopping second hand locally NOW. Try your luck

I was casually GPU shopping for a month hoping for an intel price drop on the 16GB 770 before I found a guy asking $500AUD (About $320 us) for a rx6700xt near me, the ad was 3 weeks old. I messaged him and said "Its not really the card I was shopping for but can be there with $350 ($225usd) in 10 minutes" and he said yes after a little back and forth.

That was like 6 months ago and I still havent seen a 6700xt as cheap as what I got mine for.

[–] ripened_avacado 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks I will definitely check out for second hand stuff!

[–] Delphia 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/RKgo-DWEKeY?si=YBa8FzkzK-uMTWCY

Give this a look too if you arent super knowledgeable about buying used.

[–] ripened_avacado 1 points 1 year ago

Will check this out. Thanks!